Construction Lawyers Darwin are the Darwin branch of Baker Merz Construction Lawyers, an expert Legal, Engineering, Project Management and Construction Claims firm that provides commercial management assistance to clients engaged in projects across the Infrastructure, Building, Rail and Bus transportation, Telecommunications, Renewable Energy, Mining and Oil and Gas industries.
We use dual-qualified engineers-lawyers with first-hand project experience that have most likely handled a matter on their projects in similar situations to what brought you to this website.
Our offering contains Contract evaluation and formation services, strategy and administration, Planning, Scheduling, EoT, Prolongation, Disruption and Acceleration Claims, Payment Claims and Schedules - Adjudication Applications & Responses, Dispute management: Expert determination, arbitration and litigation
Why engage Law office that requires to be assisted by a "group of experts" when you have accessibility to our Construction Experts that developed 100s of projects before entering the law.
We can assist you with, Contract Reviews and Contract Analysis. Our engineering proficiency and on-site construction experience enables us to interpret, analyse and provide contract suggestions throughout different areas such as rights, liabilities, duties, and scope under Australian Standard Contracts (AS4000 and AS2124 Series), Australian Building Industry Contracts (ABIC), Master Builders Association (MBA), NT Security of Payments Act compliance in addition to FIDIC, JCT & NEC4 standard contracts.
We provide pre-contract audits to identify standard conditions and recommend changes that transfer or re-assign high or unnecessary risks.
A well-written contract minimises risks. Before you authorize any type of agreement, we will see to it that it remains in your best interests which you understand your direct exposure.
BIFA, QBCC Adjudication Dispute Management, NT Adjudication and Dispute Management, We conduct an extensive contract analysis identifying the vital conditions in the contract. We review the drawings, technical specifications and site records to figure out the cause, result and merit of any type of claim.
Our written claims include plain English narratives, relevant cost and CPM delay analyses and referenced evidence files. Prior to we refer the matter to adjudication, we will also figure out the demand for affidavits and expert records to guarantee that claims are able to withstand any kind of scrutiny. We are experienced substituting our clients in formal and informal dispute process, and regularly brief counsels and barristers. We will certainly lead you with the legal process, and work towards a resolution of your dispute in the shortest possible time.
Delay, Disruption, Acceleration Critical Path Delay Analysis, We offer internal planning and scheduling services. When delays do take place, we analyse the baseline schedule and progress updates to develop prospective and retrospective windows and time-impact analysis. We establish delays, concurrent delays, apportionment, and liability. We calculate labor and performance rates using gained values or measured mile techniques to establish the exact quantum of disruption claims. Our claim documents present delay and disruption information in particularised and auditable layout.
We also prepare acceleration claims, evaluate merit, quantum and entitlement to an EoT claim and provide Third Party Independent Reports to help our clients understand the staminas and weakness of their position. Contract Management and Financial Recovery. It is common expertise that the source of troubled projects plagued by delays and cost overruns have a tendency to be centred in insufficient project planning, inadequate schedule tracking and poor contract and financial control.
We combine our legal, engineering, planning and amount evaluating abilities to help our clients devise comprehensive project development procurement and having strategies to significantly de-risk any kind of project. We commonly manage the resolution of claims independently. This maximizes the hands and allows the Contracts Management and Construction Groups to concentrate on their key purpose of delivering the project. The benefits of this technique is a positive cashflow from the start and lower overall project administration expenditure. All of our lawyers are construction experts in their very own right, no time at all is lost in understanding the issues impacting cost schedule or scope issues inside with the Project Group and interacting them to the Client.
Project Development Strategies International Experience. We assist developers identify suitable partners that result in teaming agreements and the setting up of successful joint ventures. We prepared winning propositions developing economic cases called for by Financial Institutions that enabled our clients to acquire money for their projects in Australia and Overseas and helped with project structuring begining from very early Desktop studies to PFS, FS assisting choose the best type of contract (D&C, EPC, EPCM, Turnley, and so on).
We then assist run the ECI phase (if called for), obtain planning and authority approvals and prepare the needed Teaming Arrangements, NDAs, EOIs, RFTs and drafting of contracts, including head contracts, subcontracts, consulting contracts and provider agreements. We also assist with contract reviews, including preparing tender qualifications, bargaining final contracts and drafting any called for modifications. Insurance claims, Fast-track projects leave a route of issues, some deep underground where they are impossible to remedy. We provide technical and legal advise on the treatment of rectifiable and un-rectifiable defects, insurance, owner or professional self-insurance, and also decennial insurance. We acted upon significant insurance claims, advised self-insured clients, government bodies and statutory authorities. Our group developed the varied abilities required to cover all facets of insurance suggestions and insurance claims management.
Our expertise includes policy interpretation and drafting, advising on policy, indemnity and subrogation issues, conducting recovery action and standing for clients before insurance companies.
Our Services Include, Schedule analysis, prepare variations/claims for Cost & EoTs. Provision of expert purchase and contract administration resources to service providers during the delivery phase. Contracts and Ts and Cs for procurement of long-lead things, fabrication and modularization, transport and installation.
Identify counterclaims and use liquidated damages. Insurance claims for style liability, efficiency below specification, incomplete jobs and re-work. Draft payment claims or payment schedules and follow through in the adjudication procedure.